Luray - Cosy Cabin

Luray is just off the Skyline around mile 33 (we were counting down from 105), it has a great location between the Blue Ridge mountains and the mountains of George Washington State Park.  We had booked a cabin here for 4 days and it was nice after our 1 stop motels.  The cabin was owned by a local farm and sat on the river banks.  It was on stilts and had a lovely hot tub under the building which our aching muscles really appreciated.

Weather was disappointing as it rain all day on our first day in Luray so no walking in the mountains. We had to make do with  stroll around the shops and warming up in coffee shops. We did make a great purchase as we decided to go barefoot - look weird but strangely comfortable. 

Thankfully it cleared up the next day and we were able to head off into Shenandoah National Park.  This time we walked from the bottom to the top of the highest waterfall, great walk and only saw a handful of people, nice that we saw some people at the top whilst pouring with sweat who were able to take our photo!

Dora the Explora

Made it to the top :)

From from our picnic spot

A very tame pretty dear

For our final day in the mountains we had a rest from walking and went kayaking down the Shenandoah River, unfortunately no photos as we did not have our waterproof camera with us and it was recommended not to take a camera which was a very good recommendation as within the first 30 minutes we hit some rapids and we were soaked along with everything in the boat!  Great fun and beautiful countryside to finish off an eventful couple of weeks.

Just one final quick video of the view of the very full river from our cabin (http://www.ganderislandcabins.com/) and also of our neighbours, there were just the 2 cabins and the one next to us was only occupied for a couple of days so we had the place to ourselves.